1947683 - [webdriver-bidi] webExtension.install with path should not accept archives

Status: NEW

(Remote Protocol :: WebDriver BiDi, defect, P2)

Description

[Krzysztof Jan Modras [:chrmod]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

It looks like that we do not correctly handle a case when path is given as type but the actual pass specified is an XPI file. Checking the BiDi specification for expand a web extension data spec it says:

Let locator be a directory locator with path path and root corresponding to the root of the file system.

We most likely have to update it to Try to create a ... and specifying the error that will be thrown if the given path is not a directory.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

Note that we could also install a web extension by directly pointing to the manifest.json file. That would be another scenario that is currently not possible.

I've filed https://github.com/w3c/webdriver-bidi/issues/885 to get this discussed with the working group.

Comment 4

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Not super urgent, but would be nice to fix it soon.